Alien Invasion Box Set by Sean Platt

Author:Sean Platt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone

CHAPTER 33

“We make a fire,” Terrence said.

“Oh, sure.” Heather shrugged.

“In the air shaft,” Terrence continued.

“Of course.”

Trevor sat back in his kitchen chair. He was trying to be cool, to act like this was all very of course and what must be done will be done. But deep down, he wasn’t feeling it. He was a fifteen-year-old kid, not yet legal to drive the caravan out of this post-apocalyptic hell. Though exceptions would probably be made. Alien invasion and all.

“Forgive me for asking,” said Heather, “but isn’t the air shaft where … oh, I don’t know … where our air comes from?”

“Astute.” Raj had already voiced his objections. Lila had argued with him for a while, which Trevor had found surprising. First of all, Raj wanted to go up top to scope the situation, and this was a way to do it. And second, Lila and Raj had been bickering a lot. Lila was, really, being kind of a bitch. She seemed to take sides against Raj just to do it. Trevor suspected she did it even when she kind of agreed with him.

She must be having her period. Except, wait. No, she wasn’t having that. But other things were surely afoot, making her crazier than usual. Raj wasn’t the only manifestation of Lila’s new attitudes. Trevor worried about her more than he wanted to.

“It’s the exhaust.” Terrence looked at Heather. “If we set the fire far enough in, it should draft out.“

“If,” Raj said.

Lila shook her head, looking at her mother and Raj. “What’s wrong with you two? I thought you wanted to go outside.”

“I do.” Heather said, although she’d surrendered much of her urgency over the last day. She wasn’t ranting about how the thumping might herald Meyer Dempsey’s return.

“This is the way,” Terrence said.

“Setting a fire. Maybe you don’t remember the fire we had before. The one that almost killed us? Oh, wait. No, of course you don’t. Because you were outside, having set it.”

“That was always controlled,” Terrence said. “We knew the smoke would vent, and that it wouldn’t burn long because the halon fire-suppression system would — ”

“Oh yes.” Heather touched her chin in mock thought. “That’s how you planned to burst in here. By tricking us into trying to save ourselves after almost burning us to death.”

“We’re fine, Mom,” said Lila, looking at Christopher.

“So you think this is a good idea?”

“I think it’s the only way.”

Raj said, “Because you have such an extensive engineering background?”

“I don’t need engineering to understand how fire works, Raj!”

“Look,” Vincent said. “We can’t go out the front door anymore. There are too many people up there. And I don’t care how much of Meyer’s artillery we take — I’m not willing to go up top just to shoot our way through the crowds. I’m not too big on killing people who don’t deserve it. But asking them nicely won’t keep people from shoving their way down here when they realize what’s under the house, and while I’m a hospitable guy, I don’t think any of us want to share with huddled masses that might number half a thousand.

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